List of Sunningdale Institute Fellows with biographies

Lord Victor Adebowale CBE - Chief Executive, Turning Point, the UK's leading social care organisation working with people facing a range of complex needs. Victor divides his time between a wide range of influential policy-making bodies. He is involved in a number of groups advising the government on mental health, substance misuse, learning disability and the role of the voluntary sector. He is a Social Enterprise Ambassador, one of a group of individuals who are passionate about using business for social and environmental change. In 2000, Victor was awarded a CBE for services to the New Deal, the unemployed and homeless young people and in 2001 became a People's Peer. Victor is a member of the Board of the National School of Government.

Professor Niclas Adler - Dean and Managing Director, Jonkoping International Business School and Senior Researcher, Ecoles des Mines Paris, is the author of several books and scholarly articles on the management of complex organisations, change and innovation. He is the founding President of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, founding Director of the FENIX Centre for Innovations in Management, co-founder of eight science-based companies and serves on a number of boards of private and public organisations.

Professor Patrick Barwise - Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing, London Business School joined the School in 1976 after an early career with IBM. He has published widely on marketing, management, and media. His book, Simply Better, won the American Marketing Association's 2005 book prize. In 2004, he was a member of the Hansard Society Commission on Parliament and the Public and led the independent review of the BBC's digital television services for the Department of Culture Media and Sport. . He was one of the team of Sunningdale Institute Fellows commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary to review the effect of Capability Reviews across Whitehall and to recommend the next stage of the Civil Service Reform Programme.

Professor John Benington - Professor of Public Policy and Management, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick University was Director of Warwick Business School's Local Government Centre from its inception in 1988 until 2001, when he became the founding Director of the Institute of Governance and Public Management. He was instrumental in the design and setting up of the Warwick MPA and three related post-graduate diplomas in aspects of public leadership and management. Professor Benington is now able to concentrate on research, development and teaching on public value, public leadership and multi-level networked governance.

Professor John Bessant - Professor in Innovation and Technology Management, Imperial College worked previously at Cranfield, Brighton and Sussex Universities. In 2003 he was awarded a Fellowship with the Advanced Institute for Management Research and was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. Author of 15 books and many articles, he has acted as advisor to various national governments and to international bodies including the United Nations, The World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Sir Michael Bichard KCB - Rector, University of the Arts, has worked throughout his career in the public sector - twenty years in Local Government and nearly ten in Central Government. He was Chief Executive of Brent and Gloucestershire Local Authorities and in 1990 became Chief Executive of the Government's Benefits Agency. He was subsequently appointed Permanent Secretary of the Employment Department and then the Department for Education and Employment. In May 2001 he left the Civil Service and later that year was appointed Rector of The London Institute, the largest Art and Design Institute in Europe, which has gone on to become University of the Arts London. In 2004 he was appointed by the Home Office to chair the Soham/Bichard Inquiry. He holds the position of Chair of the Legal Services Commission and Chair of the Design Council.

Professor Alice Brown - Public Services Ombudsman, Scotland since September 2002 and prior to this was Vice-Principal and Co-director of the Institute of Governance at the University of Edinburgh. She has served on a number of bodies including the Committee on Standards in Public Life (Nolan Committee), the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. She has published widely on constitutional change and equal opportunities policy. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Professor Cary Cooper CBE - Distinguished Professor in Organisational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School, is the author of over 100 books and several hundred scholarly articles on workplace stress, women at work and industrial and organisational psychology. He is the founding President of the British Academy of Management, served on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Management receiving their Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and holds a number of other roles with organisations in his specialist fields. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 14 volume Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management and the editor of Who's Who in the Management Sciences.

Professor Rick Delbridge - Professor in Organisational Analysis, Cardiff Business School, and Senior Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research is the author of Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing, co-editor of Manufacturing in Transition and co-author of The Exceptional Manager. He is also Associate Editor of Organization. His research interests include workplace relations in contemporary manufacturing, human resource management, the management of innovation and theorising organisation. His co-authored paper Systems of exchange was named Academy of Management Review Best Paper in 2005. Rick jointly facilitated the Sunningdale Institute's Effective Business Models Network which was set up in response to the capability reviews and explored the use of business models in the public sector.

David Fairhurst - McDonalds Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer, Northern Europe was the youngest Group Manager at H J Heinz; and was European Director of Recruitment and Leadership Planning for SmithKline Beecham where he took the company to “European Employer of Choice” in its sector. David moved to Tesco Stores as Group Resourcing Director and was given the additional accountability of Corporate HR Director.

David joined McDonald's Restaurants Ltd as Vice President of People, and was promoted to Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer - Northern Europe with responsibility for HR, Training, Education, and Customer Services. David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the of Arts, a member of the Council of People 1st, an associate member of Investors in People's Human Capital Management Standards board, and Chair of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Professional Personnel and Development. In July 2006 David was voted HR Director of the Year by readers of HR Magazine and in June 2007 he secured No.1 position in Personnel Today's Top-40 HR Power Players list.

Professor Allan Fels - Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, was Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 2003 and the Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission and the Prices Surveillance Authority from 1989 until 1995. He was previously Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Monash University and holds joint chairs at Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Science.

Baroness Rennie Fritchie DBE - had an early career as a Senior Training Advisor in an Industrial Training Board and pioneered work on equality and women's development. She has been a consultant on leadership and organisation development for many years and works out of Mainstream Development. She acts as coach and mentor for a number of Chief Executives, runs action learning sets for Chief Executives, and works with Boards on Board Development. Her work on conflict resolution has involved action research and led to the publication of Resolving Conflicts in Organisations co-authored with Malcolm Leary. She has more recently contributed to the growing body of work on good governance and is the former Commissioner for Public Appointments. She is also an Honorary Visiting Professor with a Chair in Creative Leadership at York University and Vice Chair of the Stroud & Swindon Building Society.

Professor Mike Gregory CBE - Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division in Cambridge University's Department of Engineering and Fellow of Churchill College had an early career in industry and has directed the Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing since its inception in 1998. The Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing has expertise in manufacturing strategy, technology management, international manufacturing, distributed automation and production processes and close engagement with industry. He is Chairman of UK Manufacturing Professors Forum

Professor Keith Grint - Professor of Defence Leadership and Deputy Principal (Management and Leadership) Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University, worked in industry for ten years before academia. He previously taught at Brunel University for six years and Oxford University for 12 years. His main area of interest is leadership - in all its forms, contemporary and historical. He is the founding co-editor of the new journal Leadership and he has published ten books and over 75 articles on leadership, management and the sociology of work. His most recent book is Leadership: Limits and Possibilities.

Sir Nigel Hamilton was Head of the Northern Ireland Service from 2002 until his retirement in 2008. He was Secretary to the Northern Ireland Executive and had a major role both in managing the transition from direct rule to devolution and then ensuring the successful working of the new institutions. In his 34 years in the Service, he had experience in policies and strategies in physical development as well as education, and served as Permanent Secretary in the Departments of Regional Development and Education. He is now Chair of two large charities in Northern Ireland, including The Prince’s Trust, is a Non-Executive Director of the Ulster Bank and Belfast City Airport, and Senior Vice President of Ulster Rugby. Nigel has a strong interest in both governance and the arrangements for and the impact of devolution.

Professor Jean Hartley - Professor of Organisational Analysis, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick University, is an organisational psychologist by background, whose work is concerned with leadership and learning, and innovation and improvement in public service organisations. She won a national Public Sector Fellowship in the ESRC's Advanced Institute of Management to research innovation and improvement in public services. She also leads the research team monitoring and evaluating the Beacon Scheme, which examined how improvement occurs through inter-organizational learning and sharing good practice. She has been a member of the national evaluation team for Best Value in local government in England. She has worked with the Warwick University Local Authorities Research Consortium on leadership and organisational and cultural change. She was the Founding Academic Director of the Warwick MPA. She has researched and produced a self-assessment instrument for elected member development in local government: the Warwick Political Leadership Questionnaire, which is now being developed for other public service elected and appointed leaders and managers. She completed a major literature review of leadership development for the NHS Leadership Centre and has undertaken other work on leadership in local government and health. Jean has produced, with colleague Professor Clive Fletcher, extensive research on the skills required by managers across the private, public and voluntary sectors, to lead with political awareness. This work was commissioned by the Chartered Management Institute, and is published as Leading with Political Awareness. Jean has published three books, with another one in press. She has published a wide range of articles and reports on leadership, innovation and improvement, and organisational and cultural change and improvement in public services.

Professor Christopher Hood - Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford specialises in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform and since 2004 has been Director of the ESRC 'Public Services' Research Programme. Before coming to Oxford in 2001 he held chairs at the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, NSW, and has also worked at the universities of Glasgow, York, Bielefeld, the National University of Singapore and the City University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Limits of Administration (1976), The Art of the State (1998, for which he was awarded the Political Studies Association's W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize) and (with Helen Margetts) The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (2007). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and is also an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies of the Social Sciences and a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Arts. In 2007 he received the Public Management Research Association's H. George Frederickson Award for his contributions to public management research.

Will Hutton - Chief Executive, The Work Foundation began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter. Prior to joining The Work Foundation, Will spent four years as editor in chief of the Observer and he continues to write a weekly column for the paper. He has written several best-selling economic books including The World We're In, The State We're In, The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society and On The Edge with Anthony Giddens. In addition, he won the Political Journalist of the Year award in 1993. In 2004, he was invited by the EU Commission to join a High-level Group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and he acted as rapporteur for the report. Other roles he has outside The Work Foundation include Governor of the London School of Economics; Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford; Visiting Professor, Manchester University Business School and Bristol University and he is a member of the Scott Trust.
His latest book, The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, was published in the UK in January 2007.

Professor Susan E Jackson - Professor of Human Resource Management and Graduate Director for the Doctoral Programme in Industrial Relations and Human Resources, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, holds an honorary appointment as Professor of Human Resources at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Zurich, Switzerland. She has authored numerous articles and books in her areas of expertise, which include human resource management systems to support knowledge-based competition, managing workforce diversity, and job-related stress. In addition to her university activities, Professor Jackson has held numerous offices in professional organisations such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Professor Kim Turnbull James - Professor of Executive Learning, Cranfield School of Management, is Director of Cranfield's Centre for Executive Learning and Leadership. Her interests include strategic and distributed leadership, collaborative learning, organisation politics and senior women managers' development. Kim was a founding editor of Management Learning and her previous academic appointments include the Institute for Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. She was seconded to the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership and continues to research leadership development that supports strategic change. She coaches senior executives from the public and private sector who want to enhance their leadership capability.

Professor Gerry Johnson - The Sir Roland Smith Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the Centre for Strategic Management at Lancaster University Management School, and Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management. His research interests are in the field of strategic management practice, in particular with regard to strategy development and change in organisations. He has published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, and the British Journal of Management and Human Relations. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Management Studies. He is also co-author of Europe's best selling strategic management text Exploring Corporate Strategy (Prentice Hall).

Dr Elaine Kamarck - Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. A former Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, in the 1980s, Dr. Kamarck was one of the founders of the New Democrat movement which helped to elect Bill Clinton president. She served in the White House from 1993 to 1997, where she created and managed the Clinton Administration's National Performance Review, also known as "reinventing government." At the Kennedy School, she served as Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century and as Faculty Advisor to the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2000, she took a leave of absence to work as senior policy adviser to the Gore campaign. Dr Kamarck conducts research on twenty-first century government, the role of the Internet in political campaigns, homeland defence, and governmental reform and innovation. She teaches courses on twenty-first century government, innovation, and electronic government.

Professor Binna Kandola OBE - Senior Partner, Pearn Kandola specialises in the areas of diversity and leadership development. His clients include Nike, Ford, BP and Lehman Brothers. He has written six books and was a member of the UK Governments National Employment Panel. In 2004 he was recognised by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK's top ten Occupational Psychologists. He is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield.

Tony McCarthy - Director - People, British Airways joined the airline in December 2007 from Royal Mail, one of the UK's biggest employers and where, as Group Director, People & Organisational Development, he was a key member of the senior management team leading the company's successful turnaround. Prior to joining the Royal Mail, Tony spent almost 25 years with BAE Systems and held a range of top level HR roles, including the post of Group HR Director. Tony has a track record built on success and experience. He is chair of the Centre for Performance Led HR, a group of HR academics and top practitioners, and recently became vice president of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

David MacLeod - Non Executive Director for the Department of International Development, Non Executive Director of Ofsted, Senior Associate of Towers Perrin and Visiting Professor of the Cass Business School, is also a Fellow of the RSA and Institute of Marketing. David has led private sector organisations through major programmes of change including an ICI owned European business. He was also head of the marketing team for Dulux where he significantly strengthened the brand through innovation which included Dulux natural whites. Latterly as a Divisional CEO in ICI he brought together five separate businesses to form a global organisation of 3,500 people. He has managed businesses in each of the five largest countries in Europe and served on the boards of companies in Europe, North America, Korea and Russia. He worked at the Cabinet office as Senior Adviser on Change and Performance in 2001-2003 working across different aspects of Civil Service wide reform. From 2003-2007 he worked at Towers Perrin as Senior Adviser supporting chief executives in both the public and private sectors to implement change in order to enhance performance. He was one of the team of Sunningdale Institute Fellows commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary to review the effect of Capability Reviews across Whitehall and to recommend the next stage of the Civil Service Reform Programme. He has co-authored a book “The Extra Mile” on the theme of how to fully engage employees (2007).

Sir Ian Magee CB - Senior Adviser to Booz Allen Hamilton, international management consultants, advises a number of public and private sector boards, has chaired several Top Management Programmes, and is an Executive Coach to senior civil servants and others. He is currently undertaking a review of criminality information for the Home Secretary. Formerly Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Executive, Operations, Department for Constitutional Affairs and the first Head of Profession for Operational Delivery across the Civil Service, Ian was a member of the Capability Review team for the Cabinet Office and has a continuing role in assessing progress. He has a special interest in public sector leadership and is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.

Dr Kevin Money - Associate Professor is Director of the School of Reputation and Relationships at Henley Management College, taking responsibility for overall direction in governance, reputation and relationships. The School incorporates The John Madejski Centre for Reputation of which he is Director and the Centre for Board Effectiveness which runs a successful conference in Corporate Governance at Henley Management College each year. He is also editor of The Journal of General Management. His areas of expertise are: Team Building; Executive Coaching; Mentoring; Relationships; Organisational Reputation; Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability. He teaches on the MBA programme and is a mentor and tutor on Henley's Advanced Management Programme. He also supervises DBA and PhD Research Associates. He is a Chartered Psychologist, a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a licensed NLP Practitioner. He is also a Trustee of the Safer South Africa Trust (UK), a board member of NICRO and Isolon and has acted as a consultant to major companies and voluntary organisations in the UK, USA and South Africa.

Professor Mark H Moore – Hauser Professor and Director of the Hauser Center for Non-profit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, led the development of the Kennedy School of Government’s Executive Programs for Public Sector Managers. He is the author of the seminal book, ‘Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government’. His current work focuses on extending the framework developed in creating public value to the strategic management of voluntary sector organisations, and to the understanding practices required for cross organisational and cross sector problem-solving.

Sir Richard Mottram GCB is Chairman of: Amey plc; the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory; and the UK Advisory Board of Employment Services Holdings. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of GardaWorld and a board member of Ashridge Business School and the Ditchley Foundation. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Government of the LSE. He was formerly a civil servant. From 1992-2007 he held a number of permanent secretary posts, of: the Office of Public Service and Science, responsible for public and civil service change including the creation of “Next Steps” executive agencies; the Ministry of Defence, including during the strategic defence review; the department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; the Department for Work and Pensions, responsible for large-scale service transformation; and, finally, in the Cabinet Office with responsibilities for intelligence, security and resilience.

Geoff Mulgan - Director, The Young Foundation, a centre for social innovation whose work encompasses research, publications, local projects in nearly 30 areas, running investment funds and teams in health and education, and coordinating an international network of organisations involved in social innovation in over 40 countries. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos and chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP. He has also worked in local government, the European Commission, and as a reporter for BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at London School of Economics, University College London and Melbourne University; on the boards of the Work Foundation and the Design Council; and chair of Involve and of the Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society. He is thinker in residence with the government of South Australia; fellow of the Australia New Zealand School of Government; and has advised many governments around the world, particularly in Europe and Asia. His most recent book is 'Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government' (Penguin, 2007).

Kristina Murrin - Founding Director, ?What If! the world's largest independent innovation company. The company specialises in creative problem solving helping public and private sector organisations to innovate. She now chairs the company's social innovation foundation. Kris is a regular on the media circuit having presented 5 of her own BBC series and co written 3 best selling books.

Professor Andy Neely - Director of Research, Cranfield School of Management and Deputy Director, Advanced Institute of Management Research, has research interests in organisational performance measurement and management, as well as manufacturing and service industries. He chairs the Performance Measurement Association, an international network for those interested in performance measurement and management and has authored over 100 books and articles, including Measuring Business Performance, published by the Economist and The Performance Prism, published by the Financial Times. Andy is a Fellow of the

British Academy of Management and was awarded an EPSRC Professorial Fellowship in 2007. Andy jointly facilitated the Sunningdale Institute's Effective Business Models Network which was set up in response to the capability reviews and explored the use of business models in the public sector.

Sir David Omand GCB - Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College, London was UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 2002 & 2005, directing on behalf of the Prime Minister of the national counter-terrorism strategy and the programme to build “homeland security”. Over the same period he led a successful UK inter-departmental initiative to improve standards of risk management, delivering measurable improvements in performance across government. He spent much of his career in MOD, including as Policy Director, as Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State. He is experienced in leading business change, introducing MOD's new management strategy in the early 1990s, as Director GCHQ (1996-1997) reshaping the organization post Cold War and leveraging the opportunities of new technology, and as Permanent Secretary of the Home Office (1997-2000) leading part of the Civil Service reform programme. His particular expertise is in operating effectively at the interface between the executive and political worlds. He served for seven years on the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee.

Professor Jone L Pearce - Professor of Organization and Strategy, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, is the author of over 80 scholarly articles and several books on such topics as volunteer motivation and leadership, merit pay, trust, and management in formerly communist countries. She has served as President of the American Academy of Management, and currently serves on the Scientific Committee for Tilburg University CentER in the Netherlands and on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.

Sir David Pepper KCMG was the Director of GCHQ from 2003 to July 2008. He spent most of his career in GCHQ, including spells as Finance Director and HR Director. As the Director, his focus was on leading transformational change, as GCHQ developed from a Cold War organisation into one suited to the intelligence and information assurance challenges of the 21st century and the Internet age. He also worked in the Home Office from 1998 to 2000, where he was responsible for infrastructure and modernisation. While at GCHQ he was a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and he is now a member of the Government’s National Security Forum. He currently has a non-executive role with Gloucestershire County Council, and is involved in giving strategic advice in the public and private sectors; his main areas of interest are security, leadership and organisational change.

Alice Perkins - Executive Coach and Non-Executive Director: Alice worked in the civil service for 34 years until 2005. She held a variety of roles in the Departments of Health and Social Security, the Treasury and the Cabinet Office. In January 2005, she became the Civil Service’s Group HR Director working for Sir Richard Wilson and then Sir Andrew Turnbull. The National School of Government was part of her responsibilities in that role. Since she left the service, Alice has pursued new interests. She has been a Non-Executive on the Boards of BAA and TNS where she was also Chair of the Remuneration Committee and is currently an external member of Oxford University Council and a member of the Said Business School's Business Advisory Council. She is a partner at the JCA Group where she is an Executive Coach.

Professor Teresa Rees CBE - Pro Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University and Professor in the School of Social Sciences, specialises in equalities especially gender mainstreaming, labour market analysis and science policies. She is a long term expert adviser to the European Commission and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is currently a member of the BBC Audience Council Wales and the NIACE Commission on Lifelong Learning. She has chaired two independent reviews, on higher education funding and student support (the 'Rees Reviews') - at the request of the Wales Assembly Government's Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. In 2003, she was awarded a CBE for her work on equal opportunities and higher education.

Professor Denise Rousseau - HJ Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Carnegie Mellon University is a Fellow in the American Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial/Organisational Psychology, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and 2004-2005 President of the American Academy of Management. Her research addresses the organisational change, employment relations, and workplace flexibility. Recognitions include the Terry Book Award for best management book, and awards for her research in education and healthcare.

Professor Gillian Stamp - Director of the Brunel Institute of Organisation and Social Studies works in the private, public, religious, military and social enterprise sectors on governance, leadership, strategy, decision-making in uncertainty, the development of people. She is the author of a number of papers. She is an adviser to the Archbishops' Council, to the Army research institute in Washington DC, was a member of the Council of St George's House Windsor for seven years and is a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust. Gillian is also a member of the Board of the National School of Government.

Professor Ken Starkey - Professor of Management and Organisational Learning, Nottingham University Business School is the author of a dozen books and a broad range of articles on strategy and organisation, knowledge and learning, the changing nature of higher education and the role of the business school in a knowledge economy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management where he was Chair of the Research Policy Committee.

Professor David Tranfield - Emeritus Professor of Management, Cranfield School of Management is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He specialises in the management of strategic change and has held over 20 major grants from Research Councils, authoring over 200 publications. His work has studied technological, social and personal change and he is now pioneering an approach to 'evidence-based management'. He has consulted to management on strategic change for performance improvement for over 30 years. He was one of the team Sunningdale Institute Fellows commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary to review the effect of Capability Reviews across Whitehall and to recommend the next stage of the Civil Service Reform Programme.

Professor Robin Wensley - Professor of Policy and Marketing, Warwick Business School, Warwick University and Director, Advanced Institute of Management Research. He is convenor of the new Public Management and Policy subject group within the Warwick Institute of Governance and Public Management. His research interests include marketing strategy and evolutionary processes in competitive markets, investment decision making, the assessment of competitive advantage and the nature of choice processes and user engagement in public services. He has been involved with consultancy and management development with many major companies including British Telecom, Philips NV, ICL, IBM, Glaxo, Nestle, Dynacast and Jardine Pacific. He has published a number of articles in the Harvard Business Reviews, the Journal of Marketing and the Strategic Management Journal and has twice won the annual Alpha Kappa Psi award for the most influential article in the US Journal of Marketing.